excavateur
\ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ\
The verdict
“excavateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engin de gros terrassement à haut rendement, présent dans les sablières et les mines à ciel ouvert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excavateur · excavateur · French
excavateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excavateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excavateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excavateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Engin de gros terrassement à haut rendement, présent dans les sablières et les mines à ciel ouvert.".
No misspelling variants are generated for excavateur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is excavateur, spelled E-X-C-A-V-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Engin de gros terrassement à haut rendement, présent dans les sablières et les mines à ciel ouvert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excavateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le succès de l’excavateur à godets rotatifs, tel qu’il est construit actuellement, résulte principalement de ce qu’il réunit le débit élevé de l’excavateur à chaîne à godets à la force d’excavation et à la mobilité de l’excavateur à pelle.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.